രാത്രി ഉമ്മയോട് സംസാരിച്ചാലോ? അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ ഭീഷണിപെടുത�...�യാലോ ഉപ്പയോട്‌ പറയും എന്നൊക്കെ. അന്ന് രാത്രി എനിക്കു ഉറങ്ങാന്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞില്ല. രാത്രി 10 മണി കഴിഞ്ഞു കാണും ഉമ്മ മെല്ലെ വാതില്‍ തുറന്നു എന്റെ റൂമില്‍ വന്നു.“നീ ഉറങ്ങിയോ”ഇല്ല – ഞാന്‍ പറഞ്ഞു.“നീ എന്നോടു ക്ഷമിക്കണം. ഇനി ഒരിക്കലും ഇതു സംഭവിക്കില്ല” ഉമ്മ ജാള്യത മറച്ചു എങ്ങിനെയോ അത് പറഞ്ഞൊപ്പിച്ചു.എന്നെ പേടിച്ചു നിര്ത്തേ ണ്ട ആവശ്യമൊന്നുമില്ല. ഞാനാരോടും പറയാനൊന്നും പോകുന്നില്ല. ഉമ്മ ചെയ്തത് തെറ്റാണെന്നും ഞാന്‍ പറയില്ല.ഞാനത് പറഞ്ഞപ്പോള്‍ ഉമ്മ വല്ലാതായി. As he was ushered out of the house by Ashley, Jarrad tried to reassure Brad, "I'll take good care of her." "You better," Brad shouted as the door closed behind them. "Interesting," Brad mused. "I had expected her to be dressed like a tart." He pictured how she had been dressed. "Well..." he said to himself, "The skirt might have been a little on the short side, but it's likely something she has for school. And the blouse too, very Mary Poppins-ish." Brad chuckled to himself. "Jarrad has met his. First, the floor of the cellar is still half a meter above the high tide mark. The second was that the builder coated the outside of the walls with a thick coat of tar, much like pioneers tarred the outside of their covered wagons so they would float across rivers.Originally, a thick coat of guano covered the walls and the sand inside the walls each time I visited. Two years ago, I rigged small horizontal windmills on each of the four walls. They look like long-armed anemometers that spin. I-I’m f ... frightened.”“Why, Penny dear?”“B-because he m-might come after m-me.”“No he won’t, sweetheart. He’ll be handcuffed to a policeman, maybe two if he’s really as big as you say he is.Her head came up. “Really?” It was still anxious.“Yes, poppet. Really, really!”Her head went down again and her arms tightened round him. There were more tears but these were ones of relief.Peter fished in his breast pocket and shook out a handkerchief.“Come on, little one,” he said gently. “Have a mop and.